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You will die within your lifetime.
Tuesday, 25-Sep-12 16:29:18 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Or will I?
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@thelastgherkin Morgan freeman will die within your lifetime, how does that make you feel eh?
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@purplephish20 Don't be too sure.
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@purplephish20 It depends if you arctual death is considered to be in your lifetime or not. It's like the sometimes-paradoxial confusion whether any given sample from a line depicting data includes the ends of the line, and other weird ideas I can't properly explain because I forgot all the terminology. It's like the actual line between two countries: who owns the line itself? etc
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@thehighlander For someone with a rainbow dash avatar, that was a remarkably profound and intelligent statement
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@purplephish20 unfortunately, the r in "your" defected and hid itself in "actual"
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@thehighlander The line between countries is one-dimensional, it's no area so noone owns it. And here we come to the same thing: your death is just a border not a timespan. One moment you live, the next you are dead. When exactly that moment is is debatable but there is no room in between.
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@hakupony but it's still measurable. That line has some sort of volume to it. Even a line drawn by pencil has a width, ya know?
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@thehighlander But there is no line with a pencil. It is like a vector. It usually works today because noone cares for a few inches. Also, many countries agreed on a no-mans-land because they wanted a bit of distance...
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@hakupony well that seems anti-social of those countries. They don't like hugs?
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@thehighlander Well, countries who like each other don't use no mans land. Countries like hugs when they don't hit each others heads with pointy sticks.
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@hakupony or pointy warheads
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@thehighlander Same thing, different size. Sometimes, they organize hug-parties as well where noone likes each other. They call this United Nations.
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@hakupony doesn't a line need some sort of value if it means to separate two quantifiable entities?
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@thehighlander It does need a length and a direction. Imagine a square with 4m² and a line which goeas from point a(0/0) to point b (2/2). You have two fields of 2m² and you have no idea how "thick" the line is because it is per definition one dimensional. It is just a line.
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@hakupony but the line occupies the space, making those two separated objects less than the suggested - gwaaaaah
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@thehighlander Lines don't have to occupy space, we just often make them occupy space to make it more clearly. For example, this post contains a triangle, but because I make the borders infinitely thin you can't actually see it. It's still there, though.
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@omni but if the line has no spacial value, there's no separation which increases the quantifiable values of the separated object(s) at an undefined level
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